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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Bangdb vs. Lovefield vs. Snowflake vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

bangdb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.snowflake.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2000

2012

2014

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Using read-only observers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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